Quote Originally Posted by Diane View Post
And it's not irrelevent, because Wright failed to check Bute properly to see if he was able to continue. Even though the round was over, after giving the count, Wright was supposed to make Bute take a few steps forward, to see if Bute would be able to continue to fight, but he did not do that. Wright let the ropes continue to hold Bute up. If Bute would have step forward, it would have been obvious to everyone that he would not have been able to continue, thus it should have gone as a TKO.

The ropes saved Bute from going outside of the ring at least 2 times prior to the knock down, and he stopped defending himself with 35 seconds left! He was done!

I like Bute, don't get me wrong, and he was clearly winning the fight until the 12th round, but I'm not going to be blind to what occurred, just because I like a fighter.

I agree too with your assessmnet. I too am a bute fan, but the ref pissed me off so much, throughout the fight, i began to cheer for andrade to knock him out. I like andrade too but i was neutral going into this fight. I expected bute to win because of his boxing skill, but my heart was with andrade also because he epitomizes will over skill.